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Hizmet in Transitions : European Developments of a Turkish Muslim-Inspired Mo…
In this open-access monograph, Paul Weller explores how the movement known as Hizmet (meaning “service”) is undergoing a period of transitions in Europe. Inspired by the teaching and practice of the Turkish Islamic scholar, Fethullah Gülen, Hizmet has been active in Europe (and other continents) for several decades. It has always been subject to some degree of contestation, which has inten…
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- 9783030937980
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- xxi, 253 p.
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- 297.272 HIZ P
Impermanence : exploring continuous change across cultures
Nothing lasts forever. This common experience is the source of much anxiety but also hope. The concept of impermanence or continuous change opens up a range of timely questions and discussions that speak to globally shared experiences of transformation and concerns for the future. Impermanence engages with an emergent body of social theory emphasizing flux and transformation, and brings this in…
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- 9781787358690
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- xiii, 364p. ill;
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- 294.342 IMP H
No Truth Without Beauty : God, the Qur’an, and Women's Rights
In this comprehensive open access book, written for readers from any or no religious background, Leena El-Ali does something remarkable. Never before has anyone taken on every last claim relating to Islam and women and countered it not just with Qur’anic evidence to the contrary, but with easy-to-use tools available to all. How can a woman’s testimony be worth half of a man’s? How can men…
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- 9783030835828
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- xxxiii, 306 p.
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- 297.082 NOT L
Central Asian Ismailis : an annotated bibliography of Russian, Tajik and othe…
The Shi’i Ismaili Muslims of Central Asia have a complex political history. This open access book is the first English-language study of the Ismaili Muslims in this region, based on analysis of the Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet scholarship about them. It sheds new light on their history and heritage, and also shows how the Ismailis of Central Asia have been understood and presented in the a…
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- 8
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- 9780755644988
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- xxvi, 304p.; ill.
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- 297.822 CEN d
Histories of experience in the world of lived religion
'At a historic moment, when religion shows all its social and political strength in various post-modern societies around our globe, this fascinating collection of studies from the Middle Ages to twentieth-century Europe demonstrates all the richness and innovative force of investigating individual and shared experiences when questioning the cultural, political and social place of religion in so…
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- 14
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- 9783030921408
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- viii; 305p;
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- -
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- 204.2 HIS S
Latter-day screens : gender, sexuality, and mediated Mormonism
From Sister Wives and Big Love to The Book of Mormon on Broadway, Mormons and Mormonism are pervasive throughout American popular media. In Latter-day Screens, Brenda R. Weber argues that mediated Mormonism contests and reconfigures collective notions of gender, sexuality, race, spirituality, capitalism, justice, and individualism. Focusing on Mormonism as both a meme and an analytic, Weber ana…
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- edision 13
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- 9781478005292
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- ix. :ill. ;384 p.
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- 289.3. LAT b
Law as Religion, Religion as Law
The conventional approach to law and religion assumes that these are competing domains, which raises questions about the freedom of, and from, religion; alternate commitments of religion and human rights; and respective jurisdictions of civil and religious courts. This volume moves beyond this competitive paradigm to consider law and religion as overlapping and interrelated frameworks that stru…
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- 9781108760997
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- vii, 404 p ; ill
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- 208.4 LAW
Sacred rivals : Catholic missions and the making of Islam in nineteenth-centu…
In , Abbé Jacques Suchet arrived in the Algerian city of Constantine, an important North African crossroads and citadel dating back to the days of the Roman Empire. The city, perched on a rock and surrounded by cliffs on three sides, had been conquered with much bloodshed only two years before, in colo-nial France’s first successful foray into the Algerian interior. Suchet …
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- 2
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- 9780197605295
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- xi, 304p.
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- 266.20965 SAC p
The Bible in Buffalo Country : Oenpelli Mission 1925–1931
Arriving in the remote Arnhem Land Aboriginal settlement of Oenpelli (Gunbalanya) in 1925, Alf and Mary Dyer aimed to bring Christ to a former buffalo shooting camp and an Aboriginal population many whites considered difficult to control. The Bible in Buffalo Country: Oenpelli Mission 1925–1931 represents a snapshot of the tumultuous first six years of the Church Missionary Society's mission …
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- 9781760463991
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- xix, 332p. ill;
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- 266.306 BIB S
Syiar Sastra di Bumi Cenderawasih dalam Novel Tanah Merah Karya A. Hasjmy
Buku Syiar Sastra di Bumi Cenderawasih dalam Novel Tanah Merah Karya A. Hasjmy ditulis oleh Jonner Sianipar dan diterbitkan oleh LIPI Press Jakarta tahun 2018. Buku ini tebal 154 halaman + xii halaman, terdiri dari lima BAB dilengkapi dengan indeks. BAB 1 berisi gambaran umum tentang wilayah dan kondisi bumi cenderawasih atau Irian Barat (sekarang bernama Provinsi Papua dan Provinsi Papua Barat…
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- -
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- 9786024960131
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- vii, 153 p, ; ill ; 21 cm
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- 291.175 JON s
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